Common Art Week 03 — Use of Value and Contrast

The Assignment

This week the assignment that we were given was to assign value and contrast to a predetermined 3D environmental piece. We used the Arnold Render tools to create several passes of information to be brought into Photoshop and manipulated. These included a Normal, ID, Ambient Occlusion, Outline, Depth, and Beauty pass.

The Process

I started first doing a color pass to see what colors would work well on the ship itself.

I then began to add in some of the background pieces, including a cloud texture on the ground to give it a feeling of depth.

Next, I added in some preliminary background colors and further shadows to add more depth of field. 

Final Results

To finally give more life to the scene, I added lights to the faces of the robots, and accentuated the lights on the vehicle.